How to use cherrypy as a web server?

Question

Hello. Is it any easy way to use cherrypy as an web server that will display .html files in some folder? All cherrypy introductory documentation states that content is dynamically generated:

import cherrypy
class HelloWorld(object):
    def index(self):
        return "Hello World!"
    index.exposed = True
cherrypy.quickstart(HelloWorld())

Is it any easy way to use index.html instead of HelloWorld.index() method?

Answer 1

Here is some information on serving static content with CherryPy: http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/StaticContent

BTW, here is a simple way to share the current directory over HTTP with python:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer [port]

Answer 2

# encode: utf-8

import cherrypy
WEB_ROOT = "c:\\webserver\\root\\"

class CServer( object ) :
    @cherrypy.expose
    def do_contact(self, **params):
        pass

cherrypy.server.socket_port = 80
# INADDR_ANY: listen on all interfaces
cherrypy.server.socket_host = '0.0.0.0'
conf = { '/':
  { 'tools.staticdir.on' : True,
    'tools.staticdir.dir' : WEB_ROOT,
    'tools.staticdir.index' : 'index.html' } }
cherrypy.quickstart( CServer(), config = conf )

Answer 3

This simple code will serve files on current directory.

import os
import cherrypy

PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
class Root(object): pass

cherrypy.tree.mount(Root(), '/', config={
        '/': {
                'tools.staticdir.on': True,
                'tools.staticdir.dir': PATH,
                'tools.staticdir.index': 'index.html',
            },
    })

cherrypy.quickstart()